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The final day of a long Presidential campaign arrives
 
Frank Cotolo
3 Nov 2008
 
With only 24 hours until Americans go to the polls en masse, the two candidates are showing signs of weariness and fatigue as they stump for the final day of a 21-month campaign.
 
"Everyone is tired," said a McCain aide. "We're confident but we're tired. If we win, we'll be tired and if we lose we'll be tired. This was a tiring campaign."
 
"We could go another fifteen months," said a Obama aide, "but we are glad it is coming to an end. We are not tired, we are just happy that we don't have to do this anymore. It's not that it is tiring, we just need to regroup. Oh hell, we're tired."
 
An Obama insider said that the Democrat's candidate was, no matter what he said, tired. "On the way to Florida the other day," the insider said, "Mr. Obama said to me, 'Irdwill can stop breckenship.' I said, 'What's that mean, senator,' and he just drooled and dozed off."
 
"We are so surprised that Mr. McCain made it," said a McCain insider. "We all lost in the pool, which ended this morning. We thought for sure that our candidate would collapse of exhaustion. How could he not be tired?"
 
"McCain looks tired," said a political expert for a Conservative press agency who refused to be identified in case he later changed parties. "It's hard enough to be in your seventies but to be doing all of that traveling and talking and waving has to play a toll on an older man. Look in his eyes and you will see fatigue."
 
"Governor Palin seems to be the only one raring to keep going," said an aide to Palin who wished to remain secret because he wants to be in a future Palin campaign camp. "I'm not kissing her butt, though I would love to, I mean, I am telling you that the governor can go a long time on the road and sometimes without breathing for a hour. No one can hold their breath like Governor Palin."
 
There are an expected 150 million people to cast votes when the election is over. That means a lot more counting than last time.
 
Esther Bethester, a professional ballot counter, said, "I expect my fingers to be aching the next day from all the counting."
 
Some ballot counters, knowing of the probable volume of voters this year, went back to school during the summer to learn to count nine-digit numbers.
 
"We have been in the millions before," said another ballot counter, "but not with nine digits. That's a lot of numbers."
 
No matter who wins, everyone involved with the campaigns agrees that this has been an historic time with twists and turns and ups and downs and everything a campaign could possibly present and that nothing would surprise them except if McCain won.
   
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